17 h. ago Trump will not stop until every American relic reflects his imaginary world view | Kellie Carter Jackson

The US president’s attack on the Smithsonian isn’t about truth. It’s about erasure, and ‘erasure is violence’Last week, Donald Trump issued another executive order, this one aimed directly at the Smithsonian Institution, and called for “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”. He contended that the Smithsonian had “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology” and that it advocates “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive”. Specifically, the order targeted American history and art that focused on stories of race and racism.Being responsible for the distillation of the nation’s narrative is no small thing. The Smithsonian oversees 21 museums, libraries, research centers and the National zoo. Every year millions of people visit various sites that are free to the public. The collection of museums represents the pinnacle of public history and the story America tells the world about itself. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago M60 chaos LIVE as motorway hit by delays following police incident

Police, paramedics and Highways officers are in attendance

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65 h. ago M60 chaos as motorway hit by delays following police incident

Police, paramedics and Highways officers are in attendance

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3 d. ago Journalist Graydon Carter: ‘If there was another 9/11 this week, I don’t think the world would rush to support us’

The former Vanity Fair editor on how #MeToo changed Hollywood, what Christopher Hitchens would make of the US today, and the value of a handkerchiefGraydon Carter, 75, is a Canadian-born journalist. He co-created the satirical magazine Spy, edited the New York Observer, and from 1992 until 2017 was the editor of Vanity Fair. In 2019 he founded Air Mail, an online newsletter for “worldly cosmopolitans”. His memoir, When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines, has just been published. He lives in New York with his third wife, not far from the Waverly Inn, the restaurant he co-owns, and has five children. Donald Trump has called him a “dummy” and “a real loser” who has “no talent and looks like shit”.Before we talk magazines, as a Canadian-born non-fan of Trump, how’s the view over there?Well, I think very highly of Mark Carney [the new Canadian prime minister]. He’s not going to take any grief. But the sad thing is that in two months, Trump ...

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3 d. ago We live underneath the M4 motorway... the pillars ruin our view and the cars coat our gardens in thick dust

EXCLUSIVE: Mother-of-four Joan lives in Port Talbot, South Wales, where a 45ft high fly-over on the M4 goes right above her back garden.

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5 d. ago LIVE Huge queues on motorway after crash involving lorry and car

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8 d. ago Live M6 traffic updates tonight as serious crash in Cheshire leaves motorway closed

The southbound M6 motorway is shut to traffic in Cheshire - updates as we get them

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9 d. ago Live M6 traffic updates tonight as crash in Cumbria leaves motorway closed

The northbound carriageway is shut to traffic - updates as we get them

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1 week ago LIVE: Motorway closed and several people injured as HGV crashes into SIX vehicles with debris in the road

The motorway is likely to be shut for 'some time' it is being warned

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1 week ago Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher's 'sloppy' and 'asterisk' view on Man City's 115 charges

Manchester City are still awaiting the verdict of the independent commission into the 130 charges they now face, but Sky Sports pundits Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher have had their say throughout the process

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2 w. ago M4 live updates as serious crash closes part of the motorway

Police were at the scene of a serious collision on Sunday night and part of the motorway was closed early on Monday

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2 w. ago LIVE M6 traffic as crash forces motorway to shut causing huge queues

Queues are building in the area around the accident

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2 w. ago Bruce Willis' wife reveals shocking call she got from 'very prominent doctor' amid actor's dementia battle

As her husband copes with his illness, Emma has been frank on social media about her view that 'caregivers need care too.'

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2 w. ago Live M56 traffic updates today as 'serious' crash leaves motorway closed in Cheshire

The eastbound carriageway is shut near Ellesmere Port - updates as we get them

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3 w. ago LIVE M6 traffic as crash forces motorway to shut and drivers told 'find alternative route'

Queues are forming

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3 w. ago LIVE: M61 traffic updates as motorway closed due to coach fire

There are long delays this evening following a coach fire

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3 w. ago LIVE M60 traffic as crash forces motorway to shut lanes at notorious junction

Queues are building up

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3 w. ago LIVE updates as motorists hit by 'severe delays' on M60 motorway

The AA has issued a warning

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4 w. ago M62 and M60 LIVE traffic after motorway closed following serious crash

Drivers are facing hour-long queues

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